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Anonymous
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6 years ago
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Error on Subtracting two measures having format

Hi PaulDBrown  and @all, Here is one more Issue i am facing. I think you can fix this.  Continuing to the link below. https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/sign-currency-for-only-few-rows-bas...
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  • v-lid-msft's avatar
    v-lid-msft
    6 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ,

     

    We can try to use the following measure to meet your requirement:

     

    Change =
VALUE (
    SUBSTITUTE (
        [January Total] & "",
        "$",
        ""
    )
)
    - VALUE (
        SUBSTITUTE (
            [February Total] & "",
            "$",
            ""
        )
    )

     

    If it does not work, could you please share the formula of [Janury Total] and [February Total] if it does not contain any confidential information?


    Best regards,

     

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Anonymous
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6 years ago

Thanks for reply PaulDBrown 

The calculation used for Change are measures [January Total] and [February Total] which have the same data type as shown in below screenshot.

 Change = [January Total] - [February Total] 

Still results in same error.  Is there any thing else I am missing ?

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PaulDBrown
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6 years ago

Anonymous 

Try changing the "Data Type: variant" to decimal number.

 

If you can't do it in the measure formatting options, make sure your columns you are refrencing in the measures for the calculations are formatted as decimal numbers.

 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    6 years ago

    Hi PaulDBrown ,

    Unable to change the data type from Variant as few are having $ format and few don't. I have checked from lowest calculating columns and measures. I have changed them from General to Decimal Number still its the same error.